GOF to be most expensive movie ever made!

[Marci]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, artsylynda at a... wrote:
> In a message dated 1/21/2004 5:01:24 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
> HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com writes:
> I think they should get Peter Jackson to do some Harry Potter films 
> simultaneously!        
> 
> That would cause a few problems, since there are fast-growing 
teenagers in 
> leading roles.  If they were filming books 5 through 7 at the same 
time, it's 
> logical that Harry and Ron, at least, and possibly Hermione as 
well, would get 
> taller and perhaps fill out (get more adult musculature) during 
that time, but 
> if they were filming all of those at the same time, you'd have 15-
year-old 
> size Harry in book 7 scenes, perhaps, which wouldn't work.  Elijah 
Wood was 18 
> and therefore pretty much grown when they did LOTR, so he wasn't 
going to change 
> a whole lot over the three years of filming.  But you can see some 
changes in 
> his facial structure in the second and third film, probably scenes 
they 
> "picked up" (reshot) when they had the cast return to New Zealand a 
year or two 
> after the filming was complete.  There was one place in film 2 or 3 
where Frodo's 
> face had the softness of a teenager's face, then in a scene not 
long after 
> that, his face was more angular, like an adult's (and he's in his 
20's now, 
> remember), then a later scene showed him with the younger, softer 
face again.  
> That's why Moaning Myrtle, who's supposed to stay the same age 
throughout the 
> books because she's a ghost, is played by an adult, who should stay 
looking about 
> the same for quite a few years.
> 
> I read somewhere recently that the producers or studio seem to 
think the kids 
> will be too old to act in the movies past Goblet of Fire.  I think 
that's 
> ridiculous -- they're still very close in age to the ages in the 
books, and there 
> are lots of movies with teenagers parts played by adults (look at 
> "Smallville" on TV, for instance, where Clark Kent is played at the 
age of 16-17 by Tom 
> Welling, who's 25 or so now -- that's just one example).  I hope 
they keep the 
> same actors through all the films, as long as the kids are willing 
to continue!
> 
> Lynda Sappington

I agree about the filming and the actors.  I think Emma and Dan will 
not be a problem with playing teens at an older age.  I think that 
Rupert has the 'filling out early' potential though.  Just a hunch.  
But it could still be pulled off.  Just think of 21-Jump Street, 
90210, The Lost Boys, Judd Nelson, Ally Sheedy and Emilio Estevez 
playing teens in The Breakfast Club, and possibly the best example of 
an adult playing a teen, Ralph Macchio in The Karate Kid.  He was 
pushing 30 around part two.  LOL  Elijah Wood can still play a teen 
as well.  Gabrielle Union was in her mid twenties playing a teen in 
Bring It On.  See?  No big deal, right?  It just all depends on when 
the actual books are released.

Marci